Key features of a newspaper article
Headline
– usually only four or five words. It tries to attract the interest of the reader by telling them what the story is about, in a short and interesting way.
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What is the headline for your article?
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How many words are in the headline?
By-line – who wrote the article
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Who wrote your article?
Introduction – It will set the scene and summarise the main points of the article: who, what, when, where.
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Can you identify these important points in your article?
Who is the article about?
What happened?
When did it happen?
Where did it happen?
Body
– provides more detail about the event, in particular it answers the questions how and why.
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What else do you know now?

Quotes – sometimes articles will include what a person (like an eye-witness or an expert) has said. These will be in speech marks.
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Does you article have quotes? If so,
What was said?
Who said it?
How are they related to the event?
Photograph and caption – sometimes articles have a photograph, and a sentence explaining the photograph
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Does your article have a photograph? What does it show
– describe exactly what you see?
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What does the caption say?

Headline – usually only four or five words. It tries to attract the interest of the reader by telling them what the story is about, in a short and interesting way.
By-line – who wrote the article.
Introduction – It will set the scene and summarise the main points of the article: who, what, when, where.
Body
– provides more detail about the event, in particular it answers the questions how and why.
Quotes – sometimes articles will include what a person (like an eye-witness or an expert) has said. These will be in speech marks.
Photograph and caption – sometimes articles have a photograph, and a sentence explaining the photograph.